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Acceleration is a change in the rate of speed.
Speed is a rate of change of distance over time.
I think it would be more correct to phrase it as the rate of change of speed, not the change of rate of speed, as observed in your second line. Nobody would say "change of rate of distance" unless they were a lunatic and I don't see a reason to make a special exception for the word speed.
To dig deeper, the language we use has pretty tight ties to maths in this case, we can consider the word change as meaning delta(assuming we are in a discrete context), and rate as meaning "the ratio of the following quantity with time". (Side note, this is very arbitrary - you need to define the context of the time measurement you're talking about)
The above 3 are dimensionally identical (all being metres per second squared) but I'd argue their phrasing implies the 3 distinct contexts described above. And none of them are appropriate for describing the speed of a vehicle.